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One thing I notice a lot of the yachting vloggers on the net make the mistake of is keeping under sail while trying to fight a marlin. Get the sails down, get the engines chasing the fish providing the swell isnt up.
For a start, you'd need the right rudder setup I'd imagine.
Reversing my boat, and a lot of other keelers at anything over 2knts its a herculean job. Large rudders dont like reversing for the same reason planes dont fly backwards
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The Cule guys sorted me out with a non standard hatch years ago.
Maybe call them or pop in rather than look at their website - they were the oracle of all things hatches when i dealt with them.
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I bought a sheet of 25mm insulation foam from Forman Insulation and cut it to fit the box. I put two layers in then glassed over the top and painted it with two pot.
Im not sure how it compares to other cool boxes, but it seems to do a good job
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I did it on my carpenter 29 just as described above, 160 Kg of BUKH 10,piece of cake.
Ditto. I did it on my Dubois 42 with a Volvo MD3020. Easy peasy
Blocks of wood and some old bits of carpet were very handy.
Once we pulled it out we perched it on a marina trolley lined with carpet and dragged it to the mechanics ute - its amazing what those marina trolleys will handle
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There's a Point Piper in Sydney's inner harbour if there's a chance of confusion?
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What a peach.
Alas, I already have to many boats that dont get used
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No , if you zoom in on maps it shows the boundary lines. I also used paper with measurements and bearings from our land title stuff to find one and get a parameter for error in the GPS position.
Ahh, got it thx! The boundary lines are only visible on certain base maps that I hadn't explored.
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^ Funny, I was just doing that a couple of days ago. Just enable location , use google maps and toggle between default and Google earth, gets you close enough to find the pegs, depending on the satellites.
A huh, I'm assuming you used the council website and put in the GPS co-ordinates for the pegs on your device?
My problem is that the pegs are 100m+ apart on a hilly, bushclad site, with no line of site and i want to walk the boundary line. Its not easy and i assumed there would be an app for it, but no luck finding one yet!
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Good app!
Is there anything similar using Council/LINZ data with property boundaries?
I'd like to wander over a 2 acre, hilly bush block with my smart phone and see where the boundary lines are
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Those are nice old school boats but maintenance would be likely the same as a keeler, if not more. Simon Minoprio designs some interesting aluminium boats & has just added a Sedan version with cruising comforts. I sold my keeler & will purchase something like this for the same reason as the OP.
Point noted, however having a boat parked in a nice dry garage over the winter months would make maintenance a half enjoyable experience, and minimise it.
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Great feedback - thanks all.
That Pogo is very nice indeed.
The Salthouse is lovely, but it would need to be scaled down to make trailerable
The McGregor, thanks but its a big no from me. They just dont appeal for a number of reasons
I'm not adverse to modern fizzboats at all, its just that 99% of modern trailer-able fizzboats are awful looking.
A classic take on the Pogo would be perfect i reckon
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Not sure about all of your boxes, but the Mason Clipper isn’t a bad looking trailerable boat, galley, toilet, some bunks? Not sure about shower though.
If this is it, youre right - not bad looking at all
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With a young family, property projects, new business commitments and family down country, we're struggling to justify keeping our 42ft keeler. Due to time and weather constraints we've hardly used her in quite some time and I'm thinking a largish trailer-able fizz boat might be a better investment ( I hate admitting that BTW) However most of the current largish fizzboats out there are just plain fugly, with a capital F and I'd rather go boat-less than own one.
There are however a few nice looking fizzies that could fit the bill. This Chris Craft being one
Therefore, what fizzboats have you seen around that you secretly covert that might fit the following requirements?
Trailerable
3-4 beds
Head with shower
Galley
Classic good looks
Beachable
Preferably under 3.5 tonGetting all this in a trailer-able fizzy might be a big ask, but its worth a crack
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Great series of videos - thanks for sharing.
Ive successfully wasted several hours watching them
Definitely a masochists way of building a boat
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Just think of it as a ketch in reverse
Don't you proa sailors 'shunt' therefore its a ketch half the time, schooner the other half?
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Is it just me or does the mast look a tad short and stumpy for a boat that size?
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A much cheaper option than a electric winch as well!
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Seems like a reasonable number to me - I've forgotten how many I've lost overboard and they're generally free anyway so whats the issue. Its a right royal PITA when you dont have one
Off the top of my head
1 for pooing in when the dunny packs up.
1 for doing laundry in
1 for rinsing dishes in
1 for losing overboard while cleaning the anchor or other stuff
BTW, the Resenes paint buckets are excellent and if you keep the lids and are very multi-functional - think soaking laundry, brewing beer etc
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We've got a masthead for usual day-to-day stuff and a whip on the transom in case the mast comes down. Have a handheld as well.
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I just wish they'd hurry up and make a call on whether or not the PoA is going to stay or go, and if it goes, where to.
Its a godawful eyesore and the land has huge potential to transform the Auckland waterfront. Stadium or not, that whole area could be a beautiful space for everyone to enjoy rather than a container park and used car yard.
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I had a good experience having odd shapes cut, for a non-boat project, at modern plastics. They used to be at victoria park but seem to have moved out to ellerslie now. On the shore maybe psp plastics?
+1 for modern plastics in Ellerslie. I took my old windows in and they used them as a template for cutting new ones.
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Where did you find that?
Theres one on ebay
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Tilley-Paraffin-Iron-/192652371159?hash=item2cdaf9e4d7
What a cool object - Buy it!
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I find 5200 has the same advantage
Ditto. I find its best to stand in a blob and walk around the boat first. This saves the worry of doing it later.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be . .
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Ive watched it a few times as well, especially the last race with the no look gybe and deep foiling soak that followed - it was a thing of beauty. Jimmy and Larrys hearts was broken right there.